{"id":49693,"date":"2022-01-01T09:54:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T04:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/omicron-has-started-replacing-delta-variant-in-india\/"},"modified":"2022-01-01T09:54:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-01T04:24:36","slug":"omicron-has-started-replacing-delta-variant-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=49693","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Omicron has started replacing Delta variant in India\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>New Delhi, Dec 31 :<\/strong> Omicron has started replacing Delta variant in the country in terms of the number of COVID-19 cases and 80 per cent of international travellers who tested positive have this new variant, official sources said on Friday.<br \/>However, a third of all the detected cases were mildly symptomatic, and the rest were asymptomatic, they said.<br \/>A total of 1,270 Omicron cases have been detected across 23 states and UTs so far, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday.<br \/>Noting a considerable decline in Covid testing, the Centre had on Thursday urged 19 states\/UTs to ramp up testing &#8220;in a big way&#8221; to identify the positive cases promptly and restrict the spread of transmission in view of the increased transmissibility of Omicron variant, and the larger preponderance of asymptomatic cases.<br \/>Since, the first two cases of Omicron variant were announced in the country on December 2, the health ministry has been working in a mission mode and constantly guiding states on the measures to be undertaken to contain the spread of the infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Dec 31 : Omicron has started replacing Delta variant in the country in terms of the number of COVID-19 cases and 80 per cent of international travellers who tested positive have this new variant, official sources said on Friday.However, a third of all the detected cases were mildly symptomatic, and the rest were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49692,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}